Susie’s Thoughts

To be able to cre­ate the header image you need to know how to do the following:

Open a pic­ture or cre­ate a new in your soft­ware.
Cre­ate lay­ers.
Select a part of the pic­ture with the Magic Wand tool.
Erase the selected pix­els.
Scale a pic­ture.
Resize the can­vas.
Cre­ate cus­tom col­ors.
Pick a color from the pic­ture.
View and use rulers.
Select font and […]

In my last post I asked what web design is and before we start chang­ing the mar­gins and the padding for head­ers and other ele­ments on the page it could be good to check out some of the tuto­ri­als around talk­ing about web usabil­ity. As so many of you pointed out in your com­ments, a […]

There are dif­fer­ent types of blog­ger tags you can use for your pro­file. You can find more infor­ma­tion on the Blog­ger help page about the dif­fer­ent tags to use. I have used the tag <$BlogMemberProfile$>.

When you use the <$Blog­Mem­ber­Pro­file$> tag the fol­low­ing code and text will auto­mat­i­cally be inserted into your XHTML file.

<div id=“profile-container”>
<h2 class=“sidebar-title”>About Me</h2>
<dl […]

HTML-kit

I have found a free HTML and CSS edi­tor with many plug-ins. This edi­tor is also able to han­dle XHTML and you can cre­ate your own plug-ins. I haven’t used it much yet, but I like the way you can pre­view your code both in Explorer and Fire­fox side by side.

You can change the style of your links by adding code, like on my exam­ple below, to your style sheet. You can use some of the same prop­er­ties used for text on your links too. More infor­ma­tion on styles for links can be found on the echoe­cho website.

It’s good to add com­ments to your code, […]